Susan K. Perry's Blog: Creating in Flow, page 26
October 14, 2012
10 Brainy Tips for Hooking Your Reader
If you write in such a way as to intrigue a few brains, you'll hook and keep readers. Hook enough brains, and you might have a bestseller.
October 9, 2012
Four Insights Toward Mastering Your Art
Taking the time to achieve mastery is rewarding.
October 5, 2012
Chimps Around the Campfire? Not Quite
We can't know when oral storytelling began, but it's easy to imagine the earliest speech-capable humans sharing tales.
September 23, 2012
Can Grief Be Written Away?
A teen boy was walking his girlfriend home when a drunk driver crashed into them. The girl died, the boy's brain was injured. Read this compelling memoir about a family's life cracked in half.
September 19, 2012
What Really Happened to the Jews?
It's possible to write creatively about an old, old subject: the real lives that came before the mass deaths of the Holocaust.
September 14, 2012
10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work
Whether you call it creative block or writer's block, or you claim not to believe in such blocks at all, everyone sometimes finds creative work coming less easily. That's when to turn to these fresh strategies.
September 7, 2012
That's No Tiger, That's My Mother-in-Law
We evolved in tribes. And we often continue to think the way we did in tribal times. That can work toward survival, or it can seriously mislead us by distorting reality.
August 30, 2012
Hoard Much?
Hanging onto stuff is a habit that causes some of us to wonder if we're hoarders.
August 22, 2012
He Left a Huge Post-Ironic Hole
A surprising number of publications have let ardent readers peek into the mind of David Foster Wallace, the brilliant writer who killed himself in 2008.
August 14, 2012
7 Not-So-Summery Novels You Don't Want to Miss
All of these new novels are worth savoring for their creativity, their different takes on diverse human struggles, and their sheer readability.
Creating in Flow
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